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Headword:
Sphêx
Adler number: sigma,1741
Translated headword: wasp
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Genitive] sfhko/s:[1] a kind of bee.[2]
But [the Sphinx is] *sfi/gc, [genitive] *sfiggo/s.[3]
Greek Original:Sphêx, sphêkos: eidos melissôn. Sphinx de, Sphingos.
Notes:
[1] Genitive lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV.
[2] (In the Greek, 'bees'.) For bees see
mu 511,
mu 512,
mu 514,
mu 518.
[5] For the Sphinx cf.
pi 3083,
sigma 636,
sigma 1746,
sigma 1747,
omicroniota 34.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 June 2003@19:42:29.
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